I'm not sure if you've heard of this trend, but some parents give their one-year-old babies their own  birthday cake.  It's called a 'smash cake', (for obvious reasons), and that's what happens to it.  The tiny child inevitably digs into the cake with their hands, or face, or both , and it's never pretty.  It's messy and...did I mention that it's messy? Birthday cakes just weren't meant for one-year-olds to eat them all by themselves--and with no assistance.   Do kids like cake?  Sure , but we (at any age) should not be ingesting a whole cake by ourselves, with our hands, it's just not the way birthday cake was intended to be enjoyed. When reading the Bible today, I thought of the one-year-birthday smash cakes.   Not because of birthdays and birthday-cake-references in the Bible.  No--I don't think that Adam and Eve baked a smash cake (each) for Cain, Abel, and Seth (and their other children) on their first birthdays, and nor can I remem...